Recent reports have suggested that many published results are unreliable. To increase the reliability and accuracy of published papers, multiple changes have been proposed, such as changes in statistical...

"The pursuit of scientific knowledge requires an approach directly opposite to the creative arts. An artist better finish a work without letting the public in on the process, since no advice, or helping...

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose discovered that an electric death spasm occurs in plants when they die, and that the actual moment of death in a plant could be accurately recorded. As Sir Patrick Geddes described...

During the Golden Age of Tango (1930s-1950s) classically trained musicians played for dancers, night after night, year after year. Tango music was the synthesis of the classical repertoire with music...

from a review of the recent book by Michael Nielsen, On Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science: A key obstacle to open science discussed in the book comes from within: from scientists...

from a blog post about the woman who designed ⌘ Kare’s first assignment was developing fonts for the Mac OS. At the time, digital typefaces were monospaced, meaning that both a narrow I and a broadM were...

It is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile the observed extent of horizontal gene transfers with the central metaphor of a great tree uniting all evolving entities on the planet. In this manuscript...

Organization is on my mind. How little time I devote to it in my work, because it seems as though I should be orderly as I create. That the things I produce or learn are inherently organized in some...

"My dreams at that time were rather disturbed. Before my condition had been diagnosed, I had been very bored with life. There had not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I cam out of...

sebastian jimenez and maria ines bogado